Baked my Harddrive with Instantcake and Ptvnet when I install it back in my 704 it goes to the powering up screen and hangs on me. Any suggestions? Is it my harddrive that the unit doesn't like or might it be a bad image write from Instantcake? Because I've seen others with this setup that had success so I'm just hoping to find a solution.

It is probably because you are using a WD Green drive. Those drives have that stupid Intellipark feature on them which doesn't seem to work on Series2 TiVos. I tried to use a 1TB WD Green drive using the SATA to PATA converter, and had no luck. If you can, return the drive and exchange it for a WD Blue (Caviar SE 16).

You might be able to disable or turn off the Intellipark feature in the Green drive. Look at the Drive Upgrade thread in the Series3 forum. It has tons of data on good and bad drives. They also have links to software that will deal with the WD Green drives.

Thanks a lot for getting back to me. I don't know if I can return the drive as I'm not sure on BB's return policy but I will take a look at the other forum to see if I can find some software to unlock it.

I actually ended up getting the drive to work after disabling the intellipark.

Now the issue I have is if there is a lot of movement on the screen the image gets garbled like if I'm in a thunderstorm. Is this something to do with a slow harddrive (it only has an 8mb cache) or is this something bad with the image?

I don't think the speed of the drive would affect the image. The original drives in most Series2 TiVos were 5400RPM and 2MB cache. The actual reading and writing of the drive is not that much compared to a PC. So the extra speed of newer drives (7200RPM) just generates more heat in a TiVo. And a hard drive's cache is needed if the hard drive has to read from the same portion of the disk more than once. This doesn't happen that often on a DVR, so a big cache is wasted.

So, to summarize, try a new image. If you need a different image to try, I might have one. Send me a PM with the model of your TiVo and I'll see if it is on my list.

Overall I'm very happy. While the adapter was close to $30 bucks w/shipping it works flawlessly. The way I figured it the cost for a brand new quality DVR specific IDE drive, 500gb and up, was was about $60. On top of that they're getting harder to find everyday. Since I could get a brand new DB35 drive with warranty for 62 shipped it made sense for me to spend the extra cash for the adapter so that I could utilize the best drive that I could for the Tivo.

Stuck on Powering up msg. The JM20330 seemed to work better as I was able to boot up manually. Serial port console displays
ide_read_sector timed out
autoboot failed to read boot sector
Device on dev=13 fnc=0 port=0
watch_td timing out.
init there is no device

Tried both adapters in a PC with same disk and it was fine.

Update: I ran the wdidle3.exe /d program and was able to change the timer from the default 8sec to 62.5min. Both sata-ide adapters work with the drives.

...I don't know why the backup was so slow when both drives were connected to the one IDE channel....

You've just answered your own question. All those little ones and zeros have to go down the wire from one drive, and instead of getting DMA'ed right over to the other IDE controller (or one of the SATA controllers), they have to get stored in memory and then turned around and sent back up the same wire to the second drive while a "shut up" signal is sent to the first drive, and the CPU has to be referree-ing all of this. Then the second drive acknowledges having gotten the bunch of bits and it has to shut up while the first drive sends another batch which gets stored and turned around.

Going from a drive on one controller to a second drive on a different controller lets you use DMA--Direct Memory Access-- that takes the CPU pretty much out of the loop and let's the controllers run things.

Has anyone tried the VinPowerDigital IDESA1.0, which has the circuit board turned 90 degrees to everyone else's?

Has anyone tried the Koutech ASA120, which is the most professional looking one I've seen yet, completely enclosed, standard connector placement, 6 pin Master/Slave/(and maybe cable select) jumper set header?

I wish the Rosewill adapters were still available. That's the only one I could ever get to work. Anyone know of a cheap adapter that's not the JM20330 chipset? This one looks promising, but these things aint worth $30. It also looks surprisingly like the Rosewill adapter I paid $5 for a few years ago.

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Another member reported this chipset working, but we may have had different adapters.

To others whose adapters did not work: Did the adapter work with your drive outside of your Tivo? I was able to access the drive from my computer after connecting it to the adapter, and then connecting the adapter to a USB-to-IDE/SATA cable. But when I put the drive/adapter in my Tivo, I never got past the "Welcome. Powering Up" screen. So the adapter works, just not in the Tivo.

If I make a SATA drive with one of these the slave drive I get the welcome screen that's on the motherboard and then the "Just a few more moments" screen that's on the master drive, and then it reboots.

When I get a good Series 2 SA DT image (I thought I had a good backup. I was mistaken), I'll let everyone know if it works on one of those.

The SIIG SC-SA0512-S1 seems to work in a TCD649080, both with one 500 GB SATA and, IF YOU USE A 40 CONDUCTOR IDE CABLE--the older kind, but be sure it isn't punched or nicked to be the old kind of cable select cable--with 2 500 GB drives, each with it's own SATA-IDE adapter (the aforementioned SIIG), one jumpered on as slave, the other jumpered off as master. Didn't want to work with 80 conductor cable for some reason.

Also, one of those 2 drives was a Seagate and the other an Hitachi. I've had an issue in the past with 2 identical Seagate PATA drives not working in a Series 1, although one of them would work just fine with another brand drive. Don't know if that's a Seagate issue, a Series 1 issue, or a that particular model Seagate issue or what, but at this time I can't promise the SIIG will work with 2 identical drives (nor can I promise that it won't).

and it looks like they had to go and screw up the dimensions so as to make a liar of me.

I've got an email into SIIG support to see if the picture is wrong or they're just stupid enough to change the adapter but not the model number, but in the meantime I can't promise that ordering that model number will get you the same thing I got.

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11/17/2010

Well, I heard back from SIIG and they confirmed that they are, indeed, complete and total idiots.

They've change the size but not the model number so you can't be sure which one you'll get.

What a bunch of maroons!

And they have the nerve to claim the new one is more compact!

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Wish I'd known then what I know now and I'd have bought 3 or 4 of these on sale instead of just the 2.

In addition to apparently working in the Dual Tuner S2 SA, it's only 3.875 inches wide and 0.75 inches tall, so if you've got an external IDE hard drive case with a smidge extra length you might be able to use a SATA drive in it with one of these.

I wouldn't count on shoe-horning one into a Buffalo Link-Station, though.

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Another member reported this chipset working, but we may have had different adapters.

To others whose adapters did not work: Did the adapter work with your drive outside of your Tivo? I was able to access the drive from my computer after connecting it to the adapter, and then connecting the adapter to a USB-to-IDE/SATA cable. But when I put the drive/adapter in my Tivo, I never got past the "Welcome. Powering Up" screen. So the adapter works, just not in the Tivo.

Thanks in advance!

Apparently that's the same adapter gravydog bought 10 of. I know this because I noticed he only tried them on Series 2 machines but not Series 1, and having seen a post from Skolink about Series 1 success with the Sunplus chipset, I bought them off of gravydog. (didn't really want all 10, but he wanted to get rid of all of them and made me a deal)

Well, it turns out that the HXSP-071218 has the Sunplus Satalink SPIF223A-HL022 chip, and Skolink's adapter has the SPIF223A-HF022, and whatever the difference between "F" and "L" is, it seems that "F" works in S1's and "L" doesn't.

ADDENDUM--December 3rd, 2010--

If you have one of these and there are 4 actual pins in one corner, as opposed to 4 holes or solder pads, hold the adapter so that the 40 pin IDE connector and the 4 pin Molex connector are facing you and on the top with the IDE on the left and the Molex on the right.

In the bottom right hand corner, consider the bottommost pin on the left (of the aforementioned 4 pins) to be pin 1. (If you look at the solder side of the adapter, you'll see that it has a square pad and the other three have round ones.)

Consider the one to its right to be pin 2, the one directly above it to be pin 3 and the one diagonally above it pin 4.

Pins 2 and 4 are connected somewhere on the board, but not to ground. If you jumper pins 2 and 4 it will make no difference whatsover.

If using a 40 conductor IDE cable, jumper 3 and 4 to make that drive Master and 1 and 2 to make it Slave.

If using an 80 conductor cable, those settings might work or might not.

I considered the possibility that jumpering 1 and 3 or leaving all pins unjumpered might be the CABLE SELECT setting, but couldn't get these adapters to actually work on an 80 conductor cable no matter what jumper setting I used.

Using a 40 conductor cable and jumpering for Master, I managed to get one of these adapters to work on a single WD1001FALS 1TB 32MB cache SATA drive in a TCD649080 (a Series 2 Double Tuner).

I do not yet know if I can get two of these, one jumpered Master, one jumpered Slave, to work in the same TiVO or in a computer using a 40 conductor cable. When I find out, I'll update here.

If your adapter with HXSP-071218 on the back only has 4 soldering places for jumper pins instead of pins, I have no idea if you can achieve anything by shorting any of them together. A lot of these adapters seem to use "almost" the same circuit boards and "almost" the same parts.

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Speaking of "almost", many of the adapters out there have 2 electrolytic capacitors on the left just above the solder pins of the SATA power connector. My boards have surface mount device style tantalum capacitors (and only about a fourth of the capacitance).

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Why this works in a Series 2, but not in a Series 1, I do not know.
Remember, this is one adapter out of a lot of 10 supposedly identical ones, so that gives you an idea of the manufacturer's quality control. For all I know, the one that works may be doing so because it *doesn't* meet specs.